{"id":4748,"date":"2017-09-20T15:33:11","date_gmt":"2017-09-20T09:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/americanewsagency.net\/?p=4748"},"modified":"2017-09-20T15:33:11","modified_gmt":"2017-09-20T09:33:11","slug":"248-killed-in-mexico-earthquake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/americanewsagency.net\/?p=4748","title":{"rendered":"248 killed in Mexico earthquake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A strong earthquake has struck central Mexico, killing at least 248 people and toppling dozens of buildings in the capital, Mexico City.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">President Enrique Pe\u00f1a Nieto said more than 20 children had died and 30 were missing after a school collapsed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 7.1 magnitude quake also caused major damage in neighbouring states, reports BBC.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The tremor struck shortly after many people had taken part in an earthquake drill, exactly 32 years after a quake killed thousands in Mexico City.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The country is prone to earthquakes and earlier this month an 8.1 magnitude tremor in the south left at least 90 dead.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The epicentre of the latest quake was near Atencingo in Puebla state, about 120km (75 miles) from Mexico City, with a depth of 51km, the US Geological Survey said.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A strong earthquake has struck central Mexico, killing at least 248 people and toppling dozens of buildings in the capital, Mexico City. President Enrique Pe\u00f1a Nieto said more than 20 children had died and 30 were missing after a school collapsed. The 7.1 magnitude quake also caused major damage in neighbouring states, reports BBC. The [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4749,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1691],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanewsagency.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanewsagency.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanewsagency.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanewsagency.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanewsagency.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/americanewsagency.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanewsagency.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanewsagency.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanewsagency.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanewsagency.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}